Per reporting from ESPN, Atlanta Braves infielder David Fletcher used the same illegal bookmaker as fired Ohtani interperter Ippei Mizuhara.
Los Angeles Dodgers Shohei Ohtaniby his former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, who has pled guilty to a litany of federal charges including federal bank fraud and submitting a false tax return in connection with his usage of an illegal bookmaking operation based in Southern California. The news broke while Ohtani and the Dodgers were in South Korea for a two-game series against the San Diego Padres in the week before MLB's Opening Day.
According to Thompson, MLB, the Atlanta Braves, Fletcher, and the US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, who is prosecuting Mizuhara, all declined comment. A league source confirmed to Thompson that Fletcher had not been a subject of investigation prior to her reporting but that he is “now expected to be” investigated by the league.
Thompson’s reporting connects some dots in the initial Mizuhara investigation - one mention in the federal complaint against Mizuhara mentioned an individual, named only “Bookmaker 3”, was involved in using Mizuhara’s wire information to facilitate transfers of money that turned out to belong to Ohtani. Per Thompson, “Bookmaker 3” was in fact Schultz, the friend of Fletcher’s.
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